"Page also expressed disdain for Americans participating in the 2016 March for Life, writing that she 'truly hate [s] these people.' Strzok called Virginians who apparently voted against FBI Deputy Director McCabe's wife for a local Senate seat 'ignorant hillbillys [sic].' These statements raise questions about whether personal political bias may have affected the FBI's investigation".

A footnote in Johnson's report explains that the Justice Department explained it would redact "text messages that were personal in nature or relating to other investigations".

Multiple outlets have pointed out that this couldn't have had anything to do with the Clinton email investigation, since that had been closed in July.

President Donald Trump is chiming in on the new batch of texts between Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Pagerevealed by Fox News on Wednesday, tweeting that the messages are "BOMBSHELLS!". "It's not what you think", Page responded.

Some of Strzok and Page's texts have drawn concern over what looks like more than general anti-Trump sentiment. "I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case but in any case'".

He was later a member of special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating alleged links betwen Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian Federation.

"The information available to the committee at this time raises serious questions about how the FBI applied the rule of law in its investigation of classified information on Secretary Clinton's private email server", the report said. "Figure I need to brush up on watergate".

Three days after Page sent her text, Obama confronted Putin for Russian meddling in the 2016 election on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Hangzhou, China. The special counsel removed Strzok when he learned of their communications; Page had left the Mueller team two weeks earlier for what officials said were unrelated reasons.

Comey went on to note, "I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps created to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation". "I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps", Strzok replied to Page. "Meanwhile we have OUR task ahead of us".

"The last text is from Page to Strzok, comes on June 23, 2017 when she wrote, "Please don't ever text me again".

In another text, agent Strzok repoted that Barack Obama was demanding frequent updates on their investigation.